Background/Justification:
RHS opened in August 2008. The school needs to be able to grow to meet the needs of our growingly diverse population, especially as students need 26 credits for graduation.

RHS is currently unable to consider expanding to accept reclassified 9th grade students, and can only serve a relatively small number of 10th grade students. Additional classroom space will allow for serving a broader grade range of students.  Of the 500+ students who meet the criteria of being at-risk of not graduating within four years of high school, the majority of these students are reclassified 9th graders.  At this time, a student must remain on the home campus through their second year as a 9th grader. 

All current classrooms are designed as computer labs. This does not allow for flexible arrangement for a variety of learning modalities.  There is no work space or classroom space available for intervention classes.

Current space is being used to the maximum extent. There is no available space to include another science classroom to accommodate additional lab-based sciences for graduation credits.

RHS has two teachers without a designated classroom.   Teachers are limited as to how many students they can tutor in their area of expertise because they have a full class of students working at the computers.

Additional flexibly arranged finished spaces would provide area for confidential records and file retention, common planning space, technology storage and teacher work space.